WaPo joins Schumer in exonerating Dupnik
We all know that Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik is hiding the fact that his department is concealing the fact that they are the reason that Jared Loughner was able to purchase a firearm because they never arrested him for things that would have resulted in his appearance in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). But Chuckie Schumer, and now the Washington Post, is using their brand of sleight of hand to distract us from that fact by blaming the military recruiting system for not reporting Louchner’s admission that he used drugs.
The Post reports this morning that it’s a Clinton-era policy, from the Reno Justice Department to shield drug users from NICS so they don’t avoid treatment;
“We do get reports from the military,” said John A. Strong, the FBI section chief who oversees the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). “Although if you are trying to get into the military and flunk the drug test, that’s a voluntary test and you are exempted. The [Justice Department] has decided to exempt voluntary drug tests. They did not want to have a chilling effect on those seeking treatment.”
Robyn Thiemann, deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Policy, said, “It was a policy determination that was made in the Reno administration.” She said she could not release the memo because it is an internal document.
So, I guess we really don’t need NICS, since our own Justice Department has undermined the effectiveness of it.
This still doesn’t let Dupnik off the hook for a minute. His department had more contact with the shooter over the last two years than the military and they knew he should have been on the NICS.
Category: Liberals suck, Military issues
Wait, why are they talking about drug tests? Everything I saw said that Loughner passed the drug test, he simply admitted to repeated drug use.
If they’re going to change policy so that anyone who tries to join the military and admits to drug use can have it used against them to prevent them from buying a gun, or god knows what else, why the fuck won’t people like Loughner just start lying about it? Or many who would have been qualified will just not bother trying to join in the first place, because they’re fearful that their confession about the joints they smoked in 9th grade will come back to haunt them.
The military is the military. Law enforcement is law enforcement. I ran into my fair share of kids who didn’t want to talk to me when I was a recruiter because they thought I’d turn them in if they truthfully answered the screening questions involving drug use. Can you imagine what would happen if recruiters were actually obligated by law to report the answers they get from prospects?
Blame Dupnick for being a horrible law enforcement officer, but don’t say the DOJ weakened NCIS because they separated recruiters from police officers.
Bullshit, the military recruiters are under absolutely no obligation to call the cops on potential recruits who claim to have done drugs. In most states this is not a serious crime, a misdemeanor at most. Only the military takes it very seriously. Loughner claimed he was a doper, but there was no hard evidence other than his claim to prove it, so there is nothing local law enforcement could have done about him in the first place. And given that the incompetent liberal lefty sherriff and his department consistently refused to carry out their sworn duty with this dirtbag multiple times, what the hell would they have done about this? N O T H I N G.
Good to see Schumer continues to be a leftist democrat first, and American a distant second. Always good to know where the enemy’s loyalties lie.
And it should be pointed out that the most abused “drug” in this country is perfectly legal to use, and admit to.
Alcohol.
(As my mama would have said: “Now you’ve stopped preachin’ and started meddlin’!)
This does make a case for thinning out the forest of rules and regulations.